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- How should I go about negotiating rent at my apartment with my landlord?
- What steps should we take in protecting our baby’s social security number and identity?
- In regards to retirement, how should I be thinking about income replacement?
- What is the absolute best way to pay my credit cards off every month?
- As I’m approaching the Roth IRA income limit, should I still contribute even if I might be ineligible by the end of the year?
Additional links from this episode:
- Everything you need to know about freezing your credit!
- And when when you use your credit card in a responsible way, there are a host of benefits that you’ll be able to realize- we talked through a lot of these on our Cash, Debit, or Credit episode.
- If you’re earning enough that you’re beginning to get phased out of being eligible to contribute to a Roth IRA, using this calculator by Fidelity is a great tool to know exactly how much you are able to contribute.
- And if you’re interested in trying out the Dark Side of the Rainbow.
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Since 2017 (tax cuts and jobs act of 2017), you can’t recharacterize a roth ira to a traditional. Plus, roth ira and traditional ira are subject to the same income limits, so your answer was both incorrect and made no sense.
We may have used the wrong term- it is still possible to perform an IRA to Roth IRA conversion, but it is no longer an option to then recharacterize that Roth back to a traditional. And the ability to deduct contributions to a traditional depends on whether or not you/your spouse is covered by a workplace plan.